Denver Acquires Aaron Brooks, Trades Andre Miller To Wizards

The Nuggets just got a dose of penicillin.

With the type of ailments besieging our basketball community, sometimes you can't keep icing and patching up problems.  At times you need a cure and the Nuggets may have just traded for one.

Aaron Brooks gives Nuggets fan new hope.

Sending Jordan Hamilton to the Houston Rockets to give them some added size and shooting, the Nuggets will in turn acquire Aaron Brooks.  When the Jeremy Lin craze that began in New York ended up with a big time contract in Houston, Brooks was unexpectedly placed on the sideline.  Money talks, and despite the fact that Lin is hardly any better than Brooks, he was an unknown commodity that Houston took a financial risk on.  That risk forced Lin to the floor and Brooks to the bench.

The later acquisition of James Harden snatched the ball out of the hands of Lin as well who struggles to be the point guard on a team in which Harden dominates the ball.  Brooks ha shown glimpses of All-star potential over his career (19.6 pts per game in 2010), and is an above average, pick and roll, short shot jump shooter, which has been my biggest beef against every player on this team (and of the current generation of players).  Brooks has the potential to make us question Ty Lawson who is much more skilled than Brooks, but much less confident than Brooks is as a player.

Brooks will be able to play both a fast paced style, as well as a half court approach which is quickly showing itself as part of the hybrid identity of this team and its coach.  The only real question is whether or not Brooks can help Denver make a run at the playoffs.  Their schedule says yes as the worst is mostly over for this season.  The quality of western conference competition will have something to say in the end, but a Nugget team running proper sets and defending as they can, has shown signs of something intriguing.



In a side note, Andre Miller will be making a final attempt to resurrect his soiled image in Washington with the Wizards.  In the three-team trade, the Nuggets got 6-foot-11 forward Jan Vesely and Philadelphia received guard Eric Maynor and draft picks.